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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." - Yeats

• hellofunk 10y ago
  What an apropos quote! Never seen that one before, good to know it now.
  • jessaustin 10y ago
    My reading of the poem is somewhat at odds with the implication of that quote by itself. Overall Yeats seems to be lamenting a particular situation in which the best and worst have these qualities, rather than simply stating that they have these qualities in general.
    • alphapapa 10y ago
      Yes, along the lines of the quote, "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."